Department profile
VolunteerCascade Volunteer Fire Department
Cascade, WI · Sheboygan County. Cascade Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 1 station and 72 total personnel. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 72
- Total personnel
- 1
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- No
- EMS service
The verdict
Cascade Volunteer Fire Department pairs top-10% national personnel with a headcount more than double the Wisconsin average.
- Top 8%
- national personnel size
- +157%
- vs. Wisconsin average
- 1
- station
National percentile ranks this department's personnel headcount against every listable U.S. department with reported staffing; the state comparison uses the same personnel figure against its own state's average. Both feed the verdict sentence and the chips above.
A staffing, equipment, EMS-integration, and federal-grant-funding composite benchmarked against every other USFA-registered department nationally, not a safety rating, response-time measure, or comparison of fire risk. Dimensions with no data on file are excluded and their weight redistributed, never counted as zero.
Cascade Volunteer Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Cascade, WI (Sheboygan County), with 1 station and 72 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #1,786 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #1,786 of 22,440
- WI personnel rank #31 of 695
- 1.39 stations per 100 personnel
- 24 other listed departments in Sheboygan County
Cascade Volunteer Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
72 Top 8% higher than 92% of 22,440 departments
Listable U.S. fire departments, banded by total personnel
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Source HIFLD fire-station registry · 2026-09-06
Dispatch plate
Sheet 59070 · Cascade Volunteer Fire Department, WI 72 personnel · 1 station
PERS-MID · STA-1 · TYPE-VOL · EMS-N · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 72
- STA-1 1 station
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-N No EMS flag
- RANK-TOP #1,786
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Macedon Center
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: Macedon Center Fire Department, NY (+ 0 personnel)
Volunteer HIFLD roster counts, station rows, EMS flag, listable personnel rank, photo-finish peer, and FEMA AFG/SAFER book for this FDID, not a readiness rating.
Personnel neighbourhood
Nationwide HIFLD headcount poles and nearest peers, not a reprint of every WI department.
- Cascade Volunteer (this dept) 72
- High Vandalia, OH 72
- Near Macedon Center, NY 72
- Near Purchase, NY 72
- Near City of Rye, NY 72
Department Profile
- Type
- VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Cascade, WI
- County
- Sheboygan County
- FDID
- 59070
Staffing vs the Wisconsin average
How Cascade Volunteer Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Wisconsin. In-state it ranks #31 of 695 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #1,786 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 1
- State fire deaths/yr
- 54
- WI departments
- 961
County roster fringe
Cascade Volunteer Fire Department is 8.3% of Sheboygan County roster mass
The county lists 27 departments totaling 872 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 63% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
1.39 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (1 station / 72 roster).
Photo-finish peer: Macedon Center Fire Department, NY (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 72 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every WI department.